The ‘Tom Sawyer’ and ‘Huckleberry Finn’ author had an inimitable ability to make Americans reckon with their dark history. In ...

Since Trump took office, the park service, an agency charged with preserving American history, has changed how its website ...

Explore Harriet Tubman's legacy as a freedom fighter. Discover her role in the Underground Railroad and beyond.

With this round of grants the Civil War Sites Preservation Fund has now allocated $20,312,188.32 in matching funds for the acquisition and preservation of over 1,100 acres associated with the 38 most ...

The fighting of the American Civil War ultimately reached nearly every state in the Northern and Southern territories, with ...

History buffs will love this Mississippi destination, where a Civil War battle took place that altered the course of history ...

Degener, B&O Railroad Museum Olive W. Dennis was the First Female Civil Engineer employed ... Women’s Centennial Congress, and during the Second World War, she concurrently worked as the ...

A church in a historic New Jersey town was being restored for a theater company's use. Contractors found a letter from 1891 ...

Technological advancements made the development of these engines possible -- and forever changed the way outside observers ...

For the latter half of the 19th century and up through WWI, there was tremendous growth in the railroad sector, and lanterns ...

The Tennessee Wars Commission, the Tennessee Historical Commission division responsible for preserving the state’s ...